Every year the Madrid City Council organizes an institutional event in honor of the Spanish Constitution. He usually does this shortly before December 6th, at an event in which several articles of the Magna Carta are read by students from different schools and the mayor gives a brief speech on some constitutional values.
This year, José Luis Martínez Almeida decided to hold this solemn event in the Plaza de la Vela de Paris, a green area in the Chueca neighborhood where the Supreme Court is located. This will be on Thursday, December 4, at 12:30 noon, according to the invitations sent by the Council. He does this a few days after the controversial court ruling condemning the state prosecutor for revealing secrets, which is still awaiting judgment.
In previous years, the mayor chose some places of particular importance to Spain’s political moments, as in 2024, when the event took place in front of the Royal Palace. From there he sent “a message of admiration and gratitude towards the monarchy.” It has been ten years since the coronation of Felipe VI and the City Council has organized several events to commemorate this decade of rule.
In 2023, the event was in a more symbolic and visible location: the Beaux-Arts Gardens, which houses the Monument to the Spanish Constitution built in his honor by the City Council “when Enrique Tierno Galván was mayor of the city,” the council highlighted in a press release that highlighted the “agreement” involved in approving the Magna Carta.
In 2022, the Mayor chose the Plaza de España for Constitutional Law. The day culminated there in a series of giant flags that were displayed throughout areas of Madrid. He stressed in his speech that “the 1978 Constitution was a crossroads at which we found ourselves and allowed everyone to coexist, even if we thought or thought differently.”
The event in 2025 will be before the Supreme Court, where several of its Second Chamber’s justices starred in numerous news stories after convicting the prosecutor by a vote of five to two. One of those who issued the ruling participated in producing the doctoral thesis for the Ayuso couple’s lawyer in 2024, as the elDiario.es website revealed a few days ago. Three of the judges participated, a few days after the end of the trial and in full deliberations, in a course for lawyers organized by the Illustrious Bar Association of Madrid (ICAM), the entity that filed the first complaint against the Public Prosecutor’s Office and exercised the popular accusation against García Ortiz at the trial.